the taiwankers' guide to taiwan

From 29th November to 8th December last year, nine of us embarked on our long-awaited post-A's trip to Taiwan. Thanks to Val and Ariel's planning we managed to get the most out of our trip there huhu we owe y'all one :~) This trip was hands-down one of the most memorable trips I've had, one because I loved the company, and also because Taiwan is one of my favourite countries to visit (just remembered that I haven't written about OE Taiwan yet LOL procrastination 101).

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taiwan on film

Hello! It has been more than a year since I last wrote here. I know, I can't believe it too. It's surreal to think that the days of wearing a school uniform are now over. Cheers to adulting haha welp

Anyway, mid last year, my JC classmates and I started planning for a trip to Taiwan (actually mostly Val and Ariel lol the rest of us are lazy children) and being the ballers we were, we left on the night of our last paper (which was MCQ ezclap lmao kidding). We agreed that we wouldn't mind missing prom either so we skipped that and came back on 8th December.

I'll write a more detailed post including DSLR pictures and all when I'm not so lazy - so this will have to do for now. I'm pretty happy with how all of the film pictures came out though!

清境
(Cingjing)

The homestay we stayed at for our first night had like 4 golden doggos!

合欢山
(Mount Hehuan)

太鲁阁
(Taroko Gorge)

My first attempt at a double exposure (featuring Val haha)

太平洋公园
At sunset

At sunrise

(We woke up at 5.30am for this!)

Val and Jiangz building their rock tower

淡水老街

(Tamsui District)

麦当劳

McDonald's breakfast bc we ran out of ideas

火车

The train ride to 十份

十份火车站
(Shifen train station)

Weary traveller

That's it for the film pictures – didn't take a lot because I had the other camera to handle too welp. Took quite a few film shots for Australia though so that'll will probably be my next blog post since I think I'm still too lazy to do a full-fledged recap on Taiwan lmao.

Till next time!

old but gold

The end of year holiday calls for more photography trips so here's one that I went on yesterday with Yengho and Leepoop! Singapore is just tiny so our planning for so-called "trips" really just end with us going to someone's home to eat / watch tv / eat some more HAHAHA
Anyway yesterday we decided to explore places with cool architecture and ended up with a list consisting of People's Park Complex, Rochor Centre and the maze at Marina Square!

Our first stop was the People's Park Complex, which basically is this super tall yellow building in Chinatown. To get there, exit Chinatown MRT via Exit C, then keep taking escalators and stairs up till you reach the roof.

Flexibility A1 HAHAHA
tq yengz for this photo it is truly very nice

The trick is to find big puddles of water to make photos interesting
(we basically copied this idea off all dem popular instagrammers lmao)

picnicking at marina barrage

A little late but I really enjoyed this little trip despite the super bad sunburns I suffered (esp the one on my parting since I decided to have a centre parting that day HAHAHA)

On the last day of our school's marking holiday (the day before doomsday aka the day we received our EOY results), we decided to (surprise) celebrate Tangjia's birthday! We got up a bit earlier and went to Bugis to get balloons and picnic supplies while Jia Wen was making her way there, then made our way to the Barrage to set it all up.

Us waiting for gudetangma to come because she walked towards ArtScience Museum thinking it was the Barrage then realised and took a cab to Marina Boulevard (bc the cab uncle didn't know what Marina Barrage was) HAHAHA this was all super funny

The Queen arrives !!!

SURPRISE SUCCESS HAHAHA

Faith and her apple juice

Y'know the obligatory nice shots

Then cue fake laughing #totallycandid

 

In Yvette's words, "We love to act" HAHAHA

So while we were on our picnic shopping spree in the morning, we picked up some $1.50 petals because we thought it'd be a good photo prop

And it definitely was but I swear we picked those petals off the ground more than 20x because we are obedient and responsible citizens and we do not litter

We took at least 3 tries per person to get the shot right LOL thankfully there weren't a lot of people at the Barrage otherwise gg.com to our reputations (like we even have any to uphold in the first place)
(condolences to Keshia bc we tried about more than 5x but couldn't get a good shot with her and the petals)

Fav shots of the day!

#acting101

Queen of the day HAHAHA

Hope y'all enjoy the shots from this post! Ended up with red, sunburnt faces (and hairlines for me) but it was a nice picnic and I really liked the shots that came out of it.
Cheers to $1.50 Cold Storage petals!